attention: PROGRAM FROM NOW ON AT OUR NEW LOCATIONS Rotterdam The Netherlands / next to metrostation Rijnhaven

After 2 years MELTED MEN is visiting DE PLAYER again. This time on special invitation to produce a limited edition on vinyl in combination with original printwork and tactile additives. They will start our new series called 8 INCH because they represent one of the mental and physical aspects of DE PLAYER very much. They are so to say part opf our consciesness. 8 INCH #1 will be born with the name SPITCUP.

It will be presented in an installational setting in which the audience has to enter and drawn itself into it.

MELTED MEN is known for their totalitary performative attitude without compromise. Their sound as well as visual elements are based on cacaphonic electronics and pure etno-sound. Rituals and psychoses are the leading entities.

8-INCH is a new serie of releases in a limited artist edition of 50 pieces. Specific vinyl (square 8') plus a package of 'homemade' printstuff. For the 8-INCH project each issue will be launched with an exhibition and a multi-disciplined live event that highlights the inspiration, concept and fetish of the artists involved. In other words, it reflects the mental state in which the original music was created

This first presentation is part of the 8-INCH series 2009 by DE PLAYER. The series emphasizes the relation between music/sound, performance and visual art. We selected the participating artists because of the particular choices they have made in combining these different media. They combine, extract, deform, reconstruct and invent their own pasts and futures in very organic and inimitable ways. The results are always unique, rousing and provocative.